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Quick Thursday links
- The linguistic capabilities of the candidates
- A story about the old Pullman yards I explored a few months ago. Photo gallery here.
- ASP.net and Validation Groups – I can’t believe I didn’t know about this earlier.
- The NYT breathlessly points to a supposed new trend in econ departments. Intelligent Design is a new trend in biology in the same way I suppose.
- E-Prime is the way to go
- Austin Bay has seven possibilities for Iraq. Number one is the most likely I think.
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- Meaningful advances in battery technology
- A 24 inch monitor for $229. My, how the prices have fallen
- China executes ex-drug chief for graft
China executed a former drug and food safety chief on Tuesday for corruption in an unusually swift sentence which will serve as a warning amid a series of health scandals that have stained the “made in China” brand.
Can you imagine that happening in the US? I can’t.
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Quick Friday roundup
- E-Snailer – Write a letter on the internet
- High Trust Societies
- Fair and Balanced Radio – by Radley Balco
- Better and better car batteries. From Wired. We probably need at least one generation more of advancement before plug-in hybrids are feasible.
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Friday round up
- A look at where the I-Pod is made, it’s pretty much all of East Asia
- A nice look at Electronic Medical Records
- Coming Anarchy does math
- Get your postal mail over the internet! This would solve a lot of problems for me actually.
- 72 year old Marine beats crap out of 27 year old pickpocket.
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Quick roundup while uploading
- A nice article on the Golden Section in design
- China and Demography from Coming Anarchy
- Making engines more efficient – using steam of all things – very cool
- Cutting Edge Designers
- Prediction Markets – nice graphics
- Woman jailed for testicle attack
Amanda Monti, 24, flew into a rage when Geoffrey Jones, 37, rejected her advances at the end of a house party, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
She pulled off his left testicle and tried to swallow it, before spitting it out. A friend handed it back to Mr Jones saying: “That’s yours.”
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Monday link roundup
- Popular Science has a predictions market
- Global Warming makes you fat! Really! Or so say the environmentalists. For some reason we treat a virgin birth as a matter of faith, but the weather in thirty years is a scientific fact.
- Safari is now available on Windows, I’m not sure why.
- An-arrgh-chy – The economics of Pirates. HT: ZenPundit
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Thursday link roundup
- Ala. Officials Probe ‘Monster Pig’ Saga
State wildlife officials said Wednesday they want to know how the huge hog dubbed “Monster Pig” got into a fenced hunting preserve where it was chased down and shot to death by an 11-year-old boy.
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weighed 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet, 4 inches from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail.
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Jamison was hunting with his father and the guides on May 3 when he killed the giant pig. He said he shot the huge animal eight times with a .50-caliber revolver and chased it for three hours through hilly woods before finishing it off with a point-blank shot. - Are you a good liar?
- Microsoft Surface
- Popular Mechanics how to videos
- Ala. Officials Probe ‘Monster Pig’ Saga
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Quick link round
- Puzzles and Mysteries from ZenPundit
- The Captain America Syndrome at the Washington Monthly. – They don’t actually call it that, but that’s what they’re talking about.
- This seems dirty, but it’s mostly medical. Quite funny though.
- Yet more Stirling engines
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Thursday link roundup
- Hitchens has a sharp pen – Jimmy Carter is his particular target today.
- The economics of The Wire – I suppose I need to write one about the economics of the Shield to fully flesh out the crime show econ world.
- Top 100 website run by one guy – hopefully someone will be writing that about me.
- How to photography silhouettes